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UK Spaceport News

Feb 2017
Sad news, Brexit has put a spanner in the works, the Dept of Transport has
indicated there is no timetable for the bill to be introduced.

June 2015
Newquay is now among three possible locations for the UK spaceport, the
other two locations are Glasgow Prestwick and Llanbedr in Wales. We now have
to wait for the publication of detailed technical specifications of the space
port requirements later this year and then see if Cornwall council makes a bid.

3rd March 2015
The Government review concluded the Industry backs its Spaceport plans.
RAF Lossiemouth and Kinloss Barracks cannot be included for operational reasons.
The good news is the vast majority of our regions scientific business community
prefer a UK Spaceport at Newquay Airport, subject to certain conditions.

31st October 2014
A pilot was killed and another injured as Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism craft
crashed in the California desert. Sir Richard Branson has vowed to continue his space tourism
venture despite the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket ship in the US.

Our thoughts at this moment are with the crew and family

Newquay Weather Station is proud to have supplied weather data for the consultation

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The plan is to build a spaceport at a remote site where regular airline traffic
is low. The location also has to have a longer-than usual runway or room to
build one. This is because after a hypersonic re-entry, spaceplanes will still
be travelling at far greater speeds than standard planes and will need more room to land.
Such requirements make either the north or north-east of Scotland a sensible
location, away from the busy transatlantic air corridors.

In all, eight sites have been shortlisted by the UK Space Agency and were announced at Farnborough
Air Show today (15/7/14)  six of which are in Scotland, 1 in Wales and Newquay Airport in Cornwall

Aviation minister Robert Goodwill said the sites to be assessed will be:

David Parker, head of the UK Space Agency said one aim is "to provide low-cost
access to space and provide the person in the street with the chance to go to space".
In a brief statement released ahead of tomorrow's announcement of potential sites, the UK Space Agency says: "A spaceport would open up the UK space tourism industry to specialist operators such as Virgin Galactic and XCor, but it also paves the way for future technologies that will help make Britain the place for space."

Virgin Galactic and XCor are working on spaceplanes  orbital vehicles that land like regular planes.
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo is a "captive carry" design lofted to an altitude of 10 kilometres by a jet
plane, from where it fires its rocket motor and heads for suborbit. Flight tests are ongoing. Xcor's
Lynx is a rocket plane that flies from the runway to space with no carrier aircraft  but it has yet to fly.

Being able to service such spacecraft with a British spaceport is crucial, says the UK Space Agency.
"It will be the first spaceport of its kind outside the United States."

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